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    Cover of The science of selling

    The science of selling

    Hoffeld, David (Economist) · 2016

    "The Revolutionary Sales Approach Scientifically Proven to Dramatically Improve Your Sales and Business Success Did you know that nearly half of salespeople fail to meet their quotas every year? Or that many of the most common sales behaviors drive down sales performance? In today's fiercely competitive marketplace you can't afford to lose sales that should be yours. But with so much conflicting advice from self-proclaimed "gurus," how do you know which sales strategies actually work? Leading sales trainer, researcher and CEO of Hoffeld Group, David Hoffeld, has the answer. Blending cutting-edge research in social psychology, neuroscience, and behavioral economics, The Science of Selling shows you how to align the way you sell with how our brains naturally form buying decisions, dramatically increasing your ability to earn more sales. Unlike other sales books, which primarily rely on anecdotal evidence and unproven advice, Hoffeld's evidence-based approach connects the dots between science and situations salespeople and business leaders face every day to help you consistently succeed, including proven ways to: - Engage buyers' emotions to increase their receptiveness to you and your ideas - Ask questions that line up with how the brain discloses information - Lock in the incremental commitments that lead to a sale - Create positive influence and reduce the sway of competitors - Discover the underlying causes of objections and neutralize them - Guide buyers through the…

    Business & Management
    Open LibraryAmazon
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    2017–2023years
    50% recommend50% neutral

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    What Hacker News says

    1. akulbeJun 2017
      The Personal MBA.

      Deep Work.

      How to Win Friends and Influence People.

      Think and Grow Rich.

      The E-Myth Revisited.

      The Science of Selling.

      (stuff about stoicism)

      thread
    2. jackconsidineMar 2023
      For me, I'd be nowhere without these.

      In sort of curriculum order:

      - Built to Sell - really easy gateway

      - The E-Myth Revisited (withstand the writing style, glib observations)

      - The Business Model Generation book- massive leap in understanding after this

      - Traction (Gabriel Weinberg). Marketing entrypoint zeroed into today

      - Managing the Professional Service Firm (Maiser) (incidentally related to what I do but so useful)

      - Thinking in Systems (Meadows)

      - An Elegant Puzzle (Engineering management book by Will Larson. Actionable and bite-sized)

      - Measure What Matters (Doerr)

      - Crossing the Chasm

      - Blue Ocean Strategy

      - Never Split the difference (eh)

      - Design of everyday things (not as niche as I thought, perspective altering)

      Some sales books (I held my nose while reading, but useful insights)

      - The Science of Selling

      - S.P.I.N. Selling

      - The Challenger Sale

      thread

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